Lessons from South Africa’s renewable energy regulatory and procurement experience

Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences

 
 
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Title Lessons from South Africa’s renewable energy regulatory and procurement experience
 
Creator Montmasson-Clair, Gaylor Ryan, Georgina
 
Subject electricity; renewable energy; Independent Power Producers; procurement; economic regulation
Description South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer (REIPP) procurement programme is hailed worldwide as a model for renewable energy procurement. Its success is far from experimental and haphazard and points directly to lessons acquired prior to, and during, the launch and running of the programme. This article explores the journey to the REIPP procurement programme and draws critical lessons from the process. It discusses the success of the REIPP procurement programme in developing the renewable energy sector in South Africa, drawing seven key lessons explain this success and exploring the remaining challenges. The article shows that, despite the need for further improvements and continual optimisation, the development of the REIPP procurement programme has been a positive illustration of successful policy and regulatory learning processes.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2014-09-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/jef.v7i4.382
 
Source Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences; Vol 7, No 4 (2014); 507-526 2312-2803 1995-7076
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2014 Gaylor Montmasson-Clair, Georgina Ryan https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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